Dr Corallie Murray - Chair
Corallie is a retired headteacher who spent much of her career in Special Education and has worked in primary and secondary schools for students with learning difficulties and emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Corallie was a headteacher for fourteen years and led her school to become the first outstanding special school in Northamptonshire, which it remained until her retirement. The school was awarded Teaching School status and was the first primary school in Northamptonshire and one of the first special schools in the country to achieve this.
Corallie has a PhD in educational leadership and management and has worked as an associate lecturer at the University of Leicester and at the University of Derby as a teaching student assessor and mentor.
Corallie is a dedicated gardener and enjoys cooking, travelling, reading and spending time with her five-year old grandson and one-year old granddaughter
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Chris Carey
Chris is currently an Educational consultant, specialising in the area of SEND, Inclusion and Behaviour support, having previously spent 20 years in various roles within education. An experienced Senior Leader, he also supports SLT's in schools, and provides CPD in various areas of practice.
Chris has a background in mainstream, alternative and specialist provision, and recent roles have included management of 2 different ASD provisions, overseeing mainstream Primary SEND, and supporting a Specialist provision up to, and through an Ofsted (Outstanding) inspection.
Chris also runs the Norfolk Assessment Pathway, a Special Needs Curriculum, used by schools across the East, allowing schools to demonstrate progress for all learners.
Away from Education, Chris used to be a sportsman, playing football and cricket, among other sports, and having retired from playing, is now an ECB umpire. A (not very) keen runner, he is currently embarking on a training programme ready to undertake the London Marathon 2020.
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Heather Duxbury MBE
Heather is a retired headteacher who has worked in international schools practising the English curriculum over her career of nearly 30 years. She has lived with her family in four different countries before choosing to settle here in Norfolk.
She has been responsible for establishing two new primary schools as well as the expansion of a third school to become a through-school accepting students from 3-18. At this school she instigated a GCSE programme and had the school recognised as a University of Cambridge exam centre. Under her leadership the school grew from 90 students to over 600 with the students coming from 30 different nationalities.
Recognising the difficulties of international, mobile families who have children with special needs she has made it one of her overriding principles to ensure that all the schools she has worked in had this as one of their priorities.
International schools have to be more than just an educational establishment, often providing the extended family and friendship circle that people have left at home. She therefore knows the importance of reaching out and establishing positive relationships between the school and the families.
Out of school she helped establish a charity for supporting families with children with special needs, in particular dyslexia, working to make sure these children had their particular needs acknowledged by various different educational systems and to raise money to enable conferences and workshops for parents and teachers to be held.
She has also enjoyed being a leader in Brownies in all the countries she has lived in. Now her interests also extend to gardening, school governorship, charity volunteering and travelling.
She was honoured to be awarded the MBE in 2014 for services to British Education and the British Community in Luxembourg
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Judith Gardiner
Judith attended school at Notre Dame in Norwich and then Teacher Training College in Saffron Walden. Whilst at college, weekends were spent working at a Break children’s home in Hunstanton with children in respite care. On completion of the Cert Ed, she returned to Norfolk and completed her probation year at the village school in Repps before transferring to Caister Junior School where she specialised in Music and teaching students with additional needs. The opportunity arose for Judith to establish Education Visits at Horstead Conference Centre and also to teach English to the Vietnamese families living within North Norfolk.
Having started a family, Judith took on some supply teaching before purchasing a village school in 1987. Judith has been recognised in her pioneering work with students and giving all students the opportunity to reach their potential and gaining essential life skills. She retired as Headteacher 2012 however has continued to teach within the school and in 2016 became Managing Director.
Judith’s interests include forty years of Girl Guiding, photography, travel and being involved on the family farm.
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Nigel Paterson
Nigel is retired from teaching after 32 years in the profession. His career was split equally between schools in Hertfordshire and Norfolk where he led successful departments in Religious, Personal and Social Education.
Nigel has a B.Ed. degree and an M.A. in Education.
Nigel was ordained into the Church of England in 2001 and continues as a parish priest in the North Walsham Benefice, contributing to its worship and pastoral care. He is the Bishop of Norwich’s Representative on the Paston Foundation (Paston Sixth Form College).
Since retirement, Nigel has pursued an artistic interest in painting, photography and silver working and often plays a part in Norfolk Open Studios and other exhibitions. His other interests include long-distance walking, gardening and discovering the delights of being a grandfather!
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Rachel Smith
Rachel attended All Saints School from the age of four and left in 1999 with 12 GCSEs. Initially leaving to work at Sedgwick Financial Services and then Marsh UK, Rachel returned to college in 2000 to complete a BTEC National Diploma in Drama. Furthering her education at Rose Bruford College in Kent, she then went on to gain a BA (hons) degree in Stage Management.
Circumstances then changed career path for Rachel and she successfully gained employment with Barclays Bank before moving to work at Dunston Hall running conferences, weddings and events. In 2010, Rachel returned to All Saints School but this time as a Junior School teacher and in 2016 was made a Director alongside Mrs Gardiner, her Mother. Rachel manages the school finances and looks forward to working alongside the Advisory Board to drive the schools vision and strive for excellence.
Outside of work, Rachel is kept extremely busy with her young twins and cut-flower enterprise. She enjoys horse riding and travelling.
